Soundblaster Z - no sound

Installed F40 beta KDE and have no sound. Tried all possible ports and profiles out. No luck. Under Windows all works fine.

What could be the problem?

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I haven’t test on 40 but on 39 with the AE-5 Plus I need to install alsa-firmware… You can also extract the package and manually copy the files in the ca0132 folder to /lib/firmware/… You don’t need to move the whole folder, just the files to /lib/firmware/… For some reason 39 doesn’t install that firmware by default and the Kernels built in support is spotty without them…

If you check dmesg you will probably see a message from snd_hda_intel saying ctefx.bin and ctefx-desktop.bin could not be found or loaded. It’s because the files are missing.

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Installed “sudo dnf install alsa-firmware”, restarted and now it works.

Tnx a lot!

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Thanks k c. With the ZB I can get rid of a lot of USB latency on my old system. Namaste Loggerboy

BTW I have problems with SB. After PC is waked up, it does not work, I have to manually restart Pipewire… Does anybody experience the same?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298658